The View From My Canoe, Too
posted by V at 7:49 AM
Thursday, July 12, 2007
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- Name: V
- Location: United States
I present two blogs...Lac de Vie is a photo blog of my own real experiences framed as a kind of universal Cabin, situated in a remote forest by a beautiful lake. All photos on my blog were taken by me during actual visits to northern places. "North" is anything to which we orient our real inner compasses. North is true... Une Vie d'Artiste is a site on which I will post new work and personal news items, with discussions about both... All images copyright Erica Chappuis unless otherwise noted.
Previous Posts
- The View From My Canoe
- Tiny Dancer
- Love Embrace
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Mirror
- Prayer
- The Calling
- The Red Canoe
- Follow Me...
- C'est La Vie
2 Comments:
This one... looks much like the sacred cenote closest to Chichen-Itza we visited a week ago... with it's walls water stained and porous, of the calcium rich Flagstone. One would need a canoe in the death embrace of the unforgiving walls of the that particular cenote. What was odd was, the sacred cenote was the only one I saw that was murkey green, thick as pea soup. Perhaps all those human sacrifice's "poisoned" the water: just the way the spirit of my father from those time's had warned in a dream... because not one of the other cenote's was like pea soup. I had the immense pleasure of visiting and swimming in a number of other cenote's, immersing in the cold crystal clear water to refresh one's senses dulled by the intense heat of the region. I'll have to share some of that trip at my space after though... I recover from jet lag.
The mini waterfall, here could even be from all the summer rain the area get's, freshening the local cenote's. Somehow even this, does not freshen the water of the dead.
But of course, this canoe veiw, only looks like the sacred cenote with it's green water and porous water stained shale like walls...
This is Spray Falls in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. It is about 70 feet tall and can only be seen directly from the cold waters of Lake Superior.
The previous photo was also taken at Pictured Rocks and is a close-up of one of the sandstone walls from which gorgeous veils of color leach, according to the mineral content in the stone. Manganese produces black, copper produces blue-green, calcium carbonate shows as white and iron oxides produce reddish brown. The water itself varies from emerald green to deepest blue, very much like the Caribbean to which you compare it.
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